We filmed a series of movies at Interiors UK earlier this year - watch them here.

Here is some more information from the organisers:

Visit the Designersblock Department Store at Interiors UK 2013

Hall 2 at Interiors UK will once again host the work of the very finest up and coming designers in one of the most popular features of the show, in collaboration with Designersblock. The Designersblock team will be using their creative talent to showcase their designer’s work by creating a totally new store concept, brand and identity in Designersblock & Co, the department store that you will never see, with products that aren’t in department stores today!

Above: Urban Ladybird Kit by Catherine Verpoort

This giant feature will explore what the future of retailing might look like and will include a concoction of departments featuring furniture, accessories, toys, lighting and lots more, all sourced from Designersblock’s vast network of young designers and design makers. The line-up for the Designersblock department store includes the likes of House of Hackney, JiB Studio, Plumen, Camilla Barnard, Sam Weller, Studio Sudi and Sarah Turner to name a few.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/12/designersblock-at-interiors-uk-2013-registration-now-open/feed/0Hybreed by Charlotte Kingsnorthhttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/17/hybreed-by-charlotte-kingsnorth/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/17/hybreed-by-charlotte-kingsnorth/#commentsFri, 17 Sep 2010 13:00:21 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=96431London Design Festival 2010: London designer Charlotte Kingsnorth will present a collection of fat chairs at Designersblock in London next week. Called Hybreed, the project involves creating one-off pieces by upholstering reclaimed chair frames with bulging upholstery. The alterations are meant to represent the rolls of flesh on each chair's obese owner. The series is […]

Called Hybreed, the project involves creating one-off pieces by upholstering reclaimed chair frames with bulging upholstery. The alterations are meant to represent the rolls of flesh on each chair's obese owner.

A crossbreed of furniture evolved from the concept of the relationship between a sofa and the voluptuous flesh of its obese occupier. Kingsnorth, the metamporph, picks reclaimed chairs and transforms them into different curvaceous characters and forms depending on the frames they envelop. Thus, each chair is unique, a one-off.

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/17/hybreed-by-charlotte-kingsnorth/feed/13Bodging Milano at Designersblockhttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/19/bodging-milano/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/19/bodging-milano/#commentsMon, 19 Apr 2010 14:12:43 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=75351Milan 2010: at Designersblock in Milan last week designers including Gitta Gschwendtner, Carl Clerkin and William Warren presented chairs made in an English forest with green woodworking techniques. Above and top: William Warren Called Bodging Milano, the project involved working for six days with woodworker Gudrun Leitz at her outdoor Bodging workshop in Herefordshire, UK. […]

From 30th March to April 5th, 9 designers went back to the furniture, living for a week in the woods of deepest Herefordshire.

With the help of Gudrun Leitz and her assistant Paul, each made a greenwood chair in Gudrun’s outdoor workshop.

Above and below: Rory Dodd

All of them got out of the the studio, away from drawing boards, computer screens, and mechanised equipment into the hands-on world of the original country chair-makers working without electricity with pole lathes, steam benders and hand tools.

The 10 chairs plus a chair of Gudrun’s will be exhibited with Designersblock at Spazio Revel, Milan, during the Milan Furniture Fair which takes place 14th - 19th April 2010.

Bodging Milano came about when Designer and Artist Chris Eckersley was asked to design a chair for Dave Green’s furniture company Sitting Firm.

Above and below: Suzanne Barnes

The resulting chairs called ‘Arden’ were a variation of the English Windsor Chair launched at Designersblock Milan 2009.

The Arden project led to an interest in traditional chair making and production so when Chris came across a chairmaking courses on the internet he thought he should go bodging himself to see what it was like.

Above and below: Gareth Neal

He sent some pictures from the weeks course to Rory Dodd at designersblock who said wouldn’t it be great to do something like that and present it in Milano and Bodging Milano was born.

Chris told his furniture friends and before we knew it we had a group of the UKs finest designers ready to bodge in Clisset’s Wood, Bosbury, Herefordshire. This is what we did.

Above: Dave Green

Above: Chris Eckersley

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/19/bodging-milano/feed/6Table-Dish-Cover by Maezmhttp://www.dezeen.com/2009/08/28/table-dish-cover-by-maezm/
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/08/28/table-dish-cover-by-maezm/#commentsFri, 28 Aug 2009 12:16:57 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/2009/08/28/table-dish-cover-by-maezm/London Design Festival 09: Korean designers Maezm will show work including Table-Dish-Cover, a silicon tablecloth with integrated dishes, at Designersblock in London next month. The flexible, injection-moulded silicon product is spread over a table at meal times and then removed and washed afterwards. Designersblock takes place from 24-27 September at 100% Design, Earls Court, London. […]

Spread the dish on the table. The flexible table cloth that looks just like a dish makes it possible to prepare food anywhere just by spreading it.
When the meal is over the ‘dish table cover’ is removed and washed. A sheet of a flexible ‘dish’ that is folded or crushed brings a new way of life that is not affected by space or time limitations.

Designersblock have produced 7 windows for Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street. The seven installations are timed to coincide with the London Design Festival, London Fashion Week and Frieze Art Fair. The windows will be on Duke Street until October 23rd.

Selfridges has been involved with bringing technology to the public since its inception when the first plane to cross the Channel was displayed in the store. PostlerFerguson aims to continue this approach by developing a 3 dimesional reproduction of the legendary “Olympus Rolls Royce Concorde Jet Engine” incorporating a spectacular display of engineering and science communication.

ABOUT THE OLYMPUS
http://www.curtisswright.com/ The Olympus is a high-powered axial-flow turbojet aircraft engine, originally developed and produced by Bristol Aero Engines (hence the name from Greek mythology, a long time tradition of the company), later passed to Bristol Siddeley, and finally to Rolls-Royce. The engine is still in production for industrial and naval power. Curtiss-Wright in the USA built a licensed version as the J67.

ABOUT POSTLERFERGUSON
www.postlerferguson.com
PostlerFerguson is a London-based product, graphic and interaction design firm. Founded by Ian Ferguson and Martin Postler after their graduation from the RCA, they explore issues of technology, culture and economics through design strategies based on thorough research.

2. KithKin (above)

For the 'Reveal' window KithKin have divided up the space into six sections . Every week a new section will be revealed. The countdown to the next reveal is shown on a scrolling LED. The whole window will be revealed for the last week of the scheme.

3. WEmake (above)

WEmake are rescuing discarded lamps and shades, rewiring and refiting with low energy bulbs before lovingly preserving them in a shrink wrapped jacket. The process magically reinterprets the aestetic and give the light a second life that leaves the original fully functional to be revived at will.

A sea of dead discarded lamp parts on the floor, overlaid with the words LOVINGLY PRESERVED on the window, with Beryl and Friends rising ‘reborn’ from the pile. Screens embedded in the sea of dead lamp components will show videos of the making/transformation process. Each lamp will have its name next to it on the back wall in ‘Beryl’ handwriting indicating the individuality and personality of the pieces.

4. Secret Wars (above)

Secret Wars is a battle between artists, like fight club with pens.
Competitions take place all over the world. For their window the path of the marker pen runs riot over the walls, floor and props. Rather than just leave an ink trail the lines are made up of drawings from some of Secret Wars finest artists.

5. Jim Rokos & Toby Summerskill (above)

Designer Jim Rokos & Photographer Toby Summerskill have collaborated to produce a multi faceted mirrored kaleidoscope. The sculpture is made of mirrors covered by a brand new radiant light film from 3M which changes colour as you walk by the window.

6. Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (above)

Beautiful shop windows are essential to shops for their survival. They are designed to attract customers into the shop where a symbiotic
exchange takes place between the shop and its customers. Thee same can be said for flowers, they are the ‘shop windows’ of plants designed
by nature to draw bees and insects towards them. Without them plant species would not survive. In a fiercely competive world, plants fight
for attention creating the most attractive polysensorial experiences, employing colours, textures, fragrance, form and function that has raised natural design to its highest standards.

Selfridges will be the dominant species in the garden of Oxford St where it’s new window will take shape by adopting the design knowhow and luring techniques of nature. Its geometric circular form derives from a mathematical study of Phyllotaxis; the arrangement of florets in a spiral pattern. Its gentle motion reminds us that this window is a living organism. It’s centered focal point will interact with passers-by, surreptitiously seducing them. Apifera is the Latin name given to flowers that attract bees, the busiest
‘shoppers’ of the natural world.

Apifera
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

The organism will be made from many lightweight segments that will be attached to a canvas. Behind the canvas a sequence of fans will turn on/off to create a ripple motion that starts from the centre and moves outwards.

7. Charlie Davidson (above)

Charlie Davidson is a lighting and product designer. He has made two chandeliers to rotate around two mannequins. The back wall is covered in tiny fragments of a photograph of the window.